Posted on 01/05/2015 4:25:42 AM PST by Kaslin
thanx for posting
I’ll share with you what a retired Army Four Star told a group one day. He was driving along and saw a convoy going too fast on the Interstate. He pulled up next to the lead vehicle and motioned with his hand for them to slow down. The driver looked over at him and gave him a less than appropriate single finger salute. He said that’s when he realized he was no longer a four star general.
Good stuff ping.
A success for whom?
I’m grateful for his service. But I notice how he is not happy with changes now. I was not happy with changes that were standard to him.
When I was in the Navy in the early 70s a tattoo was a courtmartial offense. I never new anyone who was courtmartialed but the threat was there. I also never knew anyone of my peers who had a tattoo.
Soldiers and Sailors and Airmen today travel in their camos, or utilities as we called them in the Bees. We flew in dress uniforms or civilian clothes. And if we drove to work we could wear our dungarees but we were not allowed to get out of the car on the way to or from “the office”.
Just little things that I don’t like. I also don’t like to see Waves that aren’t in dress uniforms. I think those are the sexiest uniforms in the military. I started to say I don’t like to see Waves out of their dress uniforms. But that would be wrong.
The professional warriors that will not let any indignity interfere with their desire to kill the enemy and keep us free. They got spit on and were called baby-killers after returning from Nam and kept on plugging. They will function despite the assault on them and their comrades by those who endeavor to debilitate them by making them a big social experiment. Their hearts and minds stay true and they will not falter. Their success is derived from God and their Hearts which will not be dominated.
I with you Sarge. Success for whom? Too many stories of the LGBT crowd using their new status to bully and cripple the carreers of non LGBTs. It has never been about equality - it is about getting even.
“Do you notice something about the oath? Something that’s not there?”...........
“So help me GOD”! I took such an oath myself and the words WERE included at that time.
That oath I took has no expiration date.
...and there you have it.
Be an oath keeper.
They were on mine, on 19 MAY 1984.
And yes, I still write my dates that way, and screw the civilians.
When did the practice of wearing ACUs off base start? Back in the day, that was prohibited except for work parties. Uniform of the day off base was either winter greens or summer tropicals (not khakis!). Dress blues were for ceremonial purposes.
One - the best supervisor I ever had in my time in the Navy was an Army SSGT back when I worked for a NATO command in Naples, Italy.
Two - I liked mostly what the newly retired COL wrote but I have always considered this the most important part of the oath - ...I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic... He is correct though that there is no expiration date and just because you retire or discharge does'nt mean you are no longer bound to it.
Thank you for your service, Sarge.
Thank you for posting this article.
The reason is that we are importing millions of muslim immigrants into America who feel they can attack those in uniform as part of their region - you f*cking O-6 idiot.
And gays in the infantry did hurt readiness and combat efficiency? Double f*cking O-6 idiot.
The same who alter the ROE to not attack the enemy?
The same who award themselves ARCOM's for trolling Facebook for politically-incorrect speech?
Who openly recruit for the Crips and Bloods in the barracks?
The same who allow bull-queers in the ranks and dare anyone who defies them?
Once again, as in the days of the Hollow Army in the 70's, to the Reign of Terror from '93-'00, my service is being socially engineered to death. They're not concerned with killing the enemy (unless the enemy is their fellow American citizens...)
He's got his pension, his healthcare-for-life, and his dacha by the lake - like a good Party man.
Accept Caesar's coin, do Caesar's bidding.
Yep.
5.56mm
Colonel;
Thanks for your service from one OCS source officer to another. B 3/11, ‘93. Enlisted DEC ‘83, served as 11B3P, commissioned 21B retired DEC 2006.
A few notes- an OCS enlistment option type, you really never were an enlisted man. 26.5 years as an officer, plus 6 months, then some snowbird time waiting for OCS (14 weeks) to start. Just to clarify for the readers.
As for the DADT comments, you surely are insulated from what the effects have been. The open season on straights who have those standards you mention, by those at every level, command to peer, who would and are forcing acceptance of behaviors that are, well, perverse and un-Soldierly. Net result of that policy change (not a law change) is the very erosion of discipline you allude to.
Your comment about the Lesbian who likes hot Latinas bespeaks of your loss of cardinal direction and an institutionalized azimuth error. So called “tolerance” is the last virtue of a dying culture.
What happened to your attention to the officers code of “not lying, cheating, or stealing or tolerating anyone who does”?
Good on ya for extolling the virtues of the Private and his NCOs as being the real heavy lifters in any armed service. They truly are and more!
I see newly enlisted Soldiers, Marines, Sailors and Airmen daily at Fort L Wood, and I can attest to their mettle and potential. Our nation is in good hands provided they are enabled and guided with good strong moral leadership. Also, they are not so blessed as you and I were in the Army of the ‘80-10’s. We are losing the culture war on the home front, while winning foreign campaigns with aplomb (although unless we conquer those lands, we lose them in the long run as the populations of those countries hate or at least dislike our freedoms as much as they enjoy our sacrifice to free them- a true conundrum for certain-and no longer worth an ounce of American blood or treasure to me).
Our Oath of office- Yeah, forgot the key words- “So Help me God”.
Note that there is no oath of fealty or allegiance to any government-only to the US Constitution so much a key in these times. We must remind our Warriors and Sailors of this critical aspect of allegiance- to none, not a single or collective person is our faith pledged, but to the Constitution its principles a guiding light of freedom and equality under law, before God and the His providence; especially in this time of lawless behavior by those charged or appointed or elected to the highest positions among us.
Again, Thanks for your service.
Duty, Honor, Country; This We’ll Defend!
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